When there is a question of saving souls, or preventing greater harm to souls, We feel the courage to treat with the devil in person.
Devil Quotes
I want to meet my God awake. (Explaining her refusal of drugs on her deathbed)
The devil made me do it.
The Eskimo, Ootah, had his own explanation. Said he: “The devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily.”
It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the devil work hard.
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. […]
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar’s skirts.
